AT LAST.
The next morning Jack was quite rested, and very eager to join Joe, who
proposed they should go and see the start of the prisoners. They
walked towards the gaol, and arrived there just as the party were
starting. The horse-thieves, eight in number, were all pinioned, and
were riding in the midst of a band of well-armed horsemen, who were
ever on the alert to detect the first attempt to escape from any of the
prisoners. They were a sullen, desperate-looking set of men, who
scowled fiercely at the restless crowd as they surged round them,
almost pushing against the horses in their efforts to see all they
could of the far-famed evil gang, who at last had fallen into the hands
of justice. At a signal from the Sheriff the little band moved away
and slowly trotted out of sight. When they had disappeared from view,
everyone followed the Sheriff (who had remained behind with two of his
men) to the big corral, where the captured horses were still standing.
Jack and Joe went with the crowd and stood looking at the horses, while
the Sheriff began busily entering in his notebook the different brands
marked on the animals.
'What's that for?' asked Jack.
'To help find out the owners,' returned Joe. 'You see the Sheriff 'll
advertise these brands, and the colours of the horses, and then folks
as have lost any 'll come and identify 'em.'
Suddenly Jack gave a cry of delight, and clambering over the bars of
the corral, rushed into the midst of the loose horses towards a
yellow-coated broncho. He flung his arms round the horse's neck and
fairly hugged it. Then, keeping hold of the shaggy mane, he led the
animal towards the bars, where his friend stood staring in astonishment.
[Illustration: 'JACK RUSHED INTO THE MIDST OF THE HORSES TOWARDS A
YELLOW-COATED BRONCHO.']
'Joe!' he shouted joyfully. 'Just see! Here's Buckskin, our old
"Buck," as I've told you about!'
Everyone looked at the excited boy, and the Sheriff glanced rather
suspiciously at him, for, strange to say, the brand on the yellow
broncho had puzzled him more than all the others, being quite unknown
to him.
He called out sharply, 'Say! what does that boy know about that horse?
Tell him to come here.'
Jack led Buckskin up to where he stood, and said quietly, 'This horse
belongs to my dad. Here's his brand, V.C., on his hip, and he has an
old scar that was done once when he was shot just afore we got him.'
'Where is it?' asked the Sheriff dubiously.
'Here!' returned Jack promptly, as he lifted Buckskin's mane and showed
the place, plain enough, where a bullet had once passed through the
neck. 'I could swear to Buckskin anywhere.'
'You're right, my lad,' said the Sheriff, after looking carefully at
the scar. 'And who's your dad?'
'George Wilson,' answered Jack. 'He lives on the Cochetopa Creek, and
freights up and down the mountains.'
'Does anyone know George Wilson, of Cochetopa Creek?' asked the
Sheriff, appealing to the crowd.
A man stood forward and said, 'I guess I saw the man you want last
week, if he's an Englishman. I didn't know his name, for he's only
just moved up to a small ranch about fifteen miles from here. I do
believe when I met him as he was drivin' a sorrel broncho, the same
colour as that one, but I never noticed the brand.'
'Joe! Joe! d'you hear that?' exclaimed Jack, in his joyful surprise
forgetting the Sheriff and everyone else. 'We're close to home after
all. Isn't it grand?'
The Sheriff looked puzzled at this outburst, until Champion Joe, who
was well known to him, came forward and briefly told Jack's story. He
also testified to Jack's good character, and finally persuaded the
officer to give over the stolen horse into their hands. A proud boy
was our hero when, a few hours later, he drove out of Redwood in Joe's
buckboard, having Buckskin securely fastened on behind.
The weather had decidedly changed since the day before, and the sky
looked dark and lowering as they drove along the prairie road. Jack,
however, was in high spirits, for he was drawing close to the end of
his long journey, and was thinking he would soon see his dear father
and mother.
'We'll make your home by evening if we have good luck,' said Joe
cheerfully; 'but I'm feared as we're in for a snowstorm, and maybe a
blizzard.'
Joe was right. As they got a little further on their way, the snow
began to fall in heavy flakes, and faster and faster they came down.
Worse still! Far away up in the mountains above them they could hear a
warning roar that proclaimed the advent of a prairie storm. Joe urged
Captain on with all his might.
'We're in for a blizzard,' he cried. 'It's coming on quick, and 'll
soon overtake us. Cochetopa Creek is only a few miles ahead of us now,
and if we could get that far we'd find quaking aspens that would break
the worst of the storm, and we could shelter there till morning.'
On they struggled, but the cold was intense, and long before they could
reach the creek the blizzard struck them with full force. The snow
froze as it fell and cut their faces, while the icy tempest whirled up
clouds of these sharp particles, blinding Joe. He made Jack get under
the tough buffalo robe, but the fierce cold was penetrating even
through that. In a short time Joe found they had wandered off the
road, and after driving aimlessly about in the storm, trying to find it
again, he had at last to give it up and acknowledge that they were
_lost_. It was an awful sensation, and when they had once pulled up,
Captain refused to stir and stood with his back to the storm.
The hunter knew they must all freeze to death if they stayed there any
length of time, and he determined to try the only expedient left, which
was to abandon the buckboard and trust themselves to the animals. With
difficulty he put a bridle on Buckskin, who was trembling with fright
and cold, and, hoisting Jack up on his back, managed to tie him on with
a bit of rope. He then unharnessed the mule and scrambled on it
himself.
'We must try and keep together if possible,' said he; 'and now, off we
go!'
The animals plunged forward amidst the drifting snow and shrieking
storm, but in a few minutes they were swept apart, and Jack missed his
companion. He pulled up, and called in vain for Joe; but the storm
roared round, drowning everything in the darkness. At last Jack felt
the wisest thing was to leave himself entirely to Buckskin, and not
even try to guide him. The cold was beginning to stupefy the boy, and
he had a strange feeling of numbness growing over him. The good old
horse plodded steadily on, while Jack laid the reins on his back,
saying with a sob, 'Go on, Buck. I shall die soon if you don't save
me.' Suddenly Buckskin stopped, and, although Jack had just sense to
be aware of it, he was quite unable to rouse himself from the deadly
stupor he had fallen into. If he had not been secured by a rope on
Buckskin, he would have slipped off long before on to the ground. But
help was at hand. Buckskin had stopped by some bars. Like all prairie
horses, he was very clever, and finding his rider made no effort to get
off and put the bars down for him, he set to work to try and do it
himself. He got his head under the top pole, and lifted it up from its
place until one end fell down. He was working at the second when a
dog's bark sounded close by, and very soon a light appeared in the
doorway of a small log-house inside the bars, as a man came out and
looked about.
It was too dark for him to see the horse outside, and Jack was quite
unconscious by this time, so it would have fared badly with our friends
in the storm, if the dog had not plunged forward over the snow and
commenced barking frantically round them. This surprised the man, and
procuring a lantern, he came towards the bars.
'What is it, Jim? Only coyotes, I believe. You silly old rogue!' he
said as the dog rushed back to him; but as he got closer, he perceived
the dark form of a horse.
'Hello! What have we here?' he exclaimed, as he let down the bars. 'A
loose horse! Why, I declare, it's old Buck back again! But what has
he got on his back? It looks like a child!'
He quickly led the horse to the door, and by the light of the lantern
untied the rope, and carried the motionless figure into the house.
'Here, wife,' he called out, 'come and see to this child, while I take
the horse to the stable. It's the strangest thing I ever knew. Buck
gets stolen, and to-night I find him at the bars in this blizzard, with
a kid on his back!'
A woman took the boy, and laid him on a couch some distance from the
fire. She then removed the blanket, and was chafing the stiff limbs to
bring back the circulation, when her husband returned, having made
Buckskin as comfortable as possible in his own stable.
'Look! He's coming round a bit,' said the woman hopefully. 'Pour some
warm coffee between his lips.'
The man obeyed, and the liquid seemed to revive the unconscious boy.
He sighed and opened his eyes. He saw a gentle face bending over him,
and knew his troubles were ended.
'Oh, Mother darling! I ain't dead, and I've found you at last!' was
his joyful cry, and the next moment he was folded in her loving arms.
[Illustration: '"OH, MOTHER DARLING! I AIN'T DEAD, AND I'VE FOUND YOU
AT LAST!"']
Such a meeting as this one between Jack and his long-lost parents is
indescribable, and we must draw a veil over the first few hours of
their happy reunion.
'Oh, George,' said the comforted mother later on, when Jack had quite
recovered, 'isn't it wonderful how it all happened? To think that old
Buck should have brought our own little Jack to our very door.'
'Yes, indeed,' returned her husband. 'What a merciful thing it was
that Jim heard them at the bars, for Jack was very nearly done for with
the awful cold!'
Tears of joy had poured down the checks of the parents when they
discovered it was really their darling who had come to them in the
storm, and they did not forget to kneel down and thank God for His
marvellous preservation of their child.
'Mother,' said Jack, 'you were right: you told me to ask God to take
care of us until we met again, and He has done it.'
'Yes, that He has,' returned his mother; 'and we have much to thank Him
for.'
'You stick to Him right through your life, Jack, as you've begun,' said
George Wilson solemnly, 'for He's the best guide and protector any man
can have.'
'I will, Daddy,' answered the boy firmly.
Jack was soon able to give an account of his adventure in the blizzard,
and expressed great anxiety about the fate of his friend, Champion Joe.
'It's madness to look for him to-night,' said George Wilson, 'but I'll
be out first thing and seek him in the morning.'
It was a great relief to them all when about daybreak the next day they
were roused by a knock at the door, which proved to be the hunter
himself. He had come to ask for help in finding his missing companion,
and you may imagine his joyful surprise to learn that Jack, in spite of
the storm, had safely reached home and his journey was over! The mule
had managed to struggle to the creek, where he and his master had
sheltered among the quaking aspens until morning, the latter being in
an agony of mind all night about Jack.
The buckboard was brought to the Wilsons' house with great difficulty
during the day, and Buckskin and Rufus had to lend their services to
drag it, light as it was, through the terrible snowdrifts. The road
was so bad, Champion Joe had to stay two or three days with Jack's
people; but he did not grudge the delay, as he had become very fond of
his little travelling companion, and he was delighted to see the
happiness of the three who had been parted so long.
Jack's mother had grown much stronger, and there was every hope of her
perfect recovery after a longer residence in their new home.
The evening of the next day after his return home, Jack was sitting
with the others round the stove, and, with his hand clasped tight in
his mother's, gave them an outline of his adventures, through which we
have followed him. They listened breathlessly, and the mother grew
pale at the description of his desertion and subsequent illness. What
risks her child had run!
When he had finished they were all silent for a short time; then his
mother said, 'God has been good to us. Here have we been mourning you
as dead, and all the time He was leading you to us through all these
perils and dangers. Have you forgot the hymns we used to sing at
Longview, Jack?'
'No, Mother; I've sung them many a time. Jeff and Pedro liked to hear
them ever so well. Let's have some to-night.'
'We will, Jack,' said his father. 'It would be quite like the old
days.'
Soon the log-house resounded with their voices as they sang their
favourite hymns. When they had finished up with the last lines of
'And nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.'
Jack exclaimed, 'Somehow I feel as if I've got safe home now!'
'Nay, laddie, not yet,' said his mother gently. 'We can never get to
our true home until we have passed through the dark valley of death.
We are all wanderers here, and in the same way as the thought of this
earthly home and Dad and me cheered you on through your journey, so
should the thought of our heavenly home, and our Father awaiting us,
help us to face the trials and troubles we must meet all our lives
through. And now, my dearie, it's getting late. Let me put you to
bed.'
Shortly after, with her loving kiss on his forehead, Jack, who had so
often felt sad and lonely at Longview, fell asleep with a happy smile
on his face.
For the sake of dead Aunt Sue the Wilsons never wrote a word of
reproach to their deceitful brother-in-law, who left Longview very soon
after Jack's disappearance.
Jack had not seen the last of the good friends he had made on his
journey. He went often to Swift Creek Ranch, where he saw not only the
Stuarts, but also Pedro and Senor at times. Steve became one of Mr.
Stuart's cowboys, where he was perfectly happy and gave every
satisfaction.
Mr. Stuart also promised Jack that when he was old enough, if he still
wished it, he should join his band of cowboys, and with this promise
Jack was quite content. About a year after Jack's reunion with his
parents, Steve, in one of the 'round-ups' of cattle, came across Jeff
Ralston, who was thankful to hear that, contrary to all his sad
anticipations, the boy had not perished on the prairie.
And now, safe in his happy home, after all he had gone through, we must
say good-bye to little Jack, leaving him growing up still the same
devoted boy to his parents as the little fellow who so bravely set out
on his tremendous journey, determined, in spite of all danger and
difficulties, to find Mother and Cochetopa Creek.
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Sunday. READING FOR THE YOUNG.
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Where the Brook and River Meet.
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Great Characters of Fiction.
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The Pleasures of Literature and the Solace of Books.
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Stories for Children in Illustration of the Lord's Prayer.
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Merrie Games in Rhyme, from ye Olden Time.
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A Lost Piece of Silver.
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Great Britain for Little Britons.
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The Old Ship; or, Better than Strength.
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Playing at Botany.
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Mopsa the Fairy.
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Our Polly.
THE ADVENTURES OF A PARROT DURING HER LIFE OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
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Dolly the Romp.
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Minstrel Dick.
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A Feast of Stories from Foreign Lands.
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Off to California.
A TALE OF THE GOLD COUNTRY.
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A TALE OF CORNWALL IN THE LAST CENTURY.
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